He had started to suspect that his venerable father and his other teachers, that the wise Brahmins had already revealed to him the most and best of their wisdom, that they had already filled his expec...
Haller belongs to those who have been caught between two ages, who are outside of all security and simple acquiescence. He belongs to those whose fate it is to live the whole riddle of human destiny h...
Generalmente, los animales son tristes. Y cuando un hombre está muy triste, no se debe a que tenga dolor de muelas o haya perdido dinero, sino porque alguna vez por un momento se da cuenta de cómo es...
Every day I did something wrong, and in the end I began to enjoy it.
Did all this make sense?
Dentro de cada hombre podemos encontrar un espíritu que sufre y que se crucifica; asimismo, en cada crucifixión podemos encontrar a un salvador.
Comprendí al punto: era la lucha entre los hombres y las máquinas, preparada, esperada y temida desde hace mucho tiempo, la que por fin había estallado. Por todas partes yacían muertos y mutilados, po...
But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.
But in the midst of the freedom he had achieved Harry suddenly became aware that his freedom was a death and that he stood alone. The world in an uncanny fashion left him in peace. Other men concerned...
But he has not killed himself, for a glimmer of belief still tells him that he is to drink this frightful suffering in his heart to the dregs, and that it is of this suffering he must die
At last- I had already given up hope- he broke throught the magic wall; at last helped me; at last he said a few words. Those were the only words I heard him speak today. 'You are tiring yourself Jose...
As palavras não fazem bem ao sentido oculto, tudo o que é igual torna-se sempre um pouco diferente quando é dito em voz alta, um pouco falseado, um pouco louco.
As every blossom fadesand all youth sinks into old age,so every life’s design, each flower of wisdom,attains its prime and cannot last forever.The heart must submit itself courageouslyto life’s call w...
As a ball-player plays with his balls, he played with his business-deals, with the people around him, watched them, found amusement in them; with his heart, with the source of his being, he was not wi...
And when I had learned it, I looked atmy life, and it was also a river, and the boy Siddhartha was onlyseparated from the man Siddhartha and from the old man Siddhartha by ashadow, not by something re...
And at that point the realization suddenly burned me like a searing flame: For each person there was an office, but for nobody was there one that he was permitted to choose for himself, to define, and...
And I don't want to live like a fleeting shadow, a consumptive, no. I want to live genuinely, with the true warmth and in full bloom. I want to be a gay worshipper in the temple of the muses rather th...
All I have to worry about is that you should learn to know a little more of the little arts and lighter sides of life.
Ah, Harry, we have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
Ach, das weiß ich heute: nichts auf der Welt ist dem Menschen mehr zuwider, als den Weg zu gehen, der ihn zu sich selber führt!